A matter of complexion: the life and fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
"A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first Black authors to write for both Black and white readers. In A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to p...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first Black authors to write for both Black and white readers. In A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to parents who were considered "mixed race." He spent his early life in North Carolina after the Civil War. Though light-skinned, Chesnutt remained a member of the black community throughout his life. He studied among students at the State Colored Normal School who were formerly enslaved. He became a teacher in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction. His life in the South of those years, the issue of race, and how he himself identified as Black informed much of his later writing. He went on to become the first Black writer whose stories appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and whose books were published by Houghton Mifflin. Through his literary work, as a writer, critic, and speaker, Chesnutt transformed the publishing world by crossing racial barriers that divided black writers from white and seamlessly including both Black and white characters in his writing. In A Matter of Complexion Chakkalakal pens the biography of a poor teacher raised in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction who became the first professional African American writer to break into the all-white literary establishment and win admirers as diverse as William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, and Lorraine Hansberry"-- |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 369 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781250287632 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Prologue: A friendship across the color line -- Part I: Youth. Ancestry -- The teacher -- Reading alone -- Leaving Fayetteville -- Part II: Going North. Adventure in New York -- A professional writer is born -- Conjuring The Atlantic -- The novelist as court reporter -- Part III: New England. Stories of the color line -- Takes up literature --Part IV: Home. Passing on Rena -- Future Americans -- Southbound -- The novelist as public intellectual -- Part V: Age of problems. Victims of heredity -- Literary celebrity -- Fathering a renaissance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index | |
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| contents | Prologue: A friendship across the color line -- Part I: Youth. Ancestry -- The teacher -- Reading alone -- Leaving Fayetteville -- Part II: Going North. Adventure in New York -- A professional writer is born -- Conjuring The Atlantic -- The novelist as court reporter -- Part III: New England. Stories of the color line -- Takes up literature --Part IV: Home. Passing on Rena -- Future Americans -- Southbound -- The novelist as public intellectual -- Part V: Age of problems. Victims of heredity -- Literary celebrity -- Fathering a renaissance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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| spelling | Chakkalakal, Tess Verfasser (DE-588)1050687515 aut A matter of complexion the life and fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt Tess Chakkalakal First edition New York St. Martin's Press 2025 viii, 369 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen 25 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Prologue: A friendship across the color line -- Part I: Youth. Ancestry -- The teacher -- Reading alone -- Leaving Fayetteville -- Part II: Going North. Adventure in New York -- A professional writer is born -- Conjuring The Atlantic -- The novelist as court reporter -- Part III: New England. Stories of the color line -- Takes up literature --Part IV: Home. Passing on Rena -- Future Americans -- Southbound -- The novelist as public intellectual -- Part V: Age of problems. Victims of heredity -- Literary celebrity -- Fathering a renaissance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index "A biography of Charles Chesnutt, one of the first Black authors to write for both Black and white readers. In A Matter of Complexion, Tess Chakkalakal gives readers the first comprehensive biography of Charles W. Chesnutt. A complex and talented man, Chesnutt was born in 1858 in Cleveland to parents who were considered "mixed race." He spent his early life in North Carolina after the Civil War. Though light-skinned, Chesnutt remained a member of the black community throughout his life. He studied among students at the State Colored Normal School who were formerly enslaved. He became a teacher in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction. His life in the South of those years, the issue of race, and how he himself identified as Black informed much of his later writing. He went on to become the first Black writer whose stories appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and whose books were published by Houghton Mifflin. Through his literary work, as a writer, critic, and speaker, Chesnutt transformed the publishing world by crossing racial barriers that divided black writers from white and seamlessly including both Black and white characters in his writing. In A Matter of Complexion Chakkalakal pens the biography of a poor teacher raised in rural North Carolina during Reconstruction who became the first professional African American writer to break into the all-white literary establishment and win admirers as diverse as William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, and Lorraine Hansberry"-- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell 1858-1932 (DE-588)119220261 gnd rswk-swf Chesnutt, Charles W. / (Charles Waddell) / 1858-1932 Novelists, American / 19th century / Biography African American novelists / Biography Romanciers américains / 19e siècle / Biographies Romanciers noirs américains / Biographies Biographies (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Chesnutt, Charles Waddell 1858-1932 (DE-588)119220261 p DE-188 |
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